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In Europe and America alike, nineteenth-century French organ music continues to attract performers and devotees. This volume contains contributions by many of the most prominent scholars and performer-scholars dealing with this fascinating repertoire. In their essays, nearly all previously unpublished or unavailable in English translation, they examine selected parts of this varied repertoire through stylistic analysis, the study of compositional process, and the exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified. New consideration is also given to the political and cultural contexts within which French organist-composers worked.
List of contents
Introduction
From the Revolution to FranckEvolutionary Schemes: Organists and Their Revolutionary Music
Organ Music in the Mass of the Parisian Rite to 1850 with Emphasis on the Contributions of Böly
Böly's
Quatorze Préludes sur des cantiques de Denizot, op.15, and the Creation of a French "Christmas"
OrgelbüchleinLemmens, His
École d'orgue, and Nineteenth-Century Organ Methods
Franck: The TextsParis, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS 8707: A New Source for Franck's Registrational Practices and Its Implications for the Published Registrations of His Organ Works
From Manuscript to Publication: Franck's
Choral No. 1
Franck: Issues in PerformanceThe Organ Works of Franck: A Survey of Editorial and Performance Problems
Some Thoughts on the Interpretation of the Organ Works of Franck, on His Organ, and on the Lemmens Tradition
Widor and His Contemporaries"Why Should We Not Do the Same with Our Catholic Melodies?": Guilmant's
L'Organiste liturgiste, op. 65
Widor's
Symphonie romaneThe Organ of the Trocadéro and Its Players
Contributors
Index
About the author
Lawrence Archbold, William J. Peterson
Summary
Essays by prominent scholars and organists examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified.
